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INDEX

Accelerandosi = displace, 252
Accelerated motion, 160
reduced to uniform motion, 173
Acceleration, definition of uniform, 169
Acceleration of gravity measured, 178
Accelerazione, used in the sense of speed, 167
Achilles and the Tortoise, problem of, 164
Acoustics, 95
Adhesion of plates, 11, 12
Aggiunti, x
Air, resistance of, to projectiles, 252, 256
Altitude of parabola, determination of, 285
Amplitude of parabola defined, 260, 273
tables of, 284
Apollonius, 242, 245, 246
theorem of, 38, 44
Aproino, Paolo, ix
Arcetri, xi, xviii
Archimedes, v, 41, 110, 144, 147, 242, 251
Archimedes' principle, 81
Ariosto, quotation from, 131
Aristotle, 12, 13, 20, 26, 49, 64, 76, 77, 80, 95, 110, 125, 135, 291
Aristotle's idea of falling bodies, 61
Arrighetti, x
Atmospheric pressure, 17
Augmented Fourth, 104
Axioms of uniform motion, 154

Beam carrying a constant load which moves from one end to the other, 140
Beam carrying a constant load in a fixed position, 140 et sq.
Beams, similar, relative strength of, 124
, strength of, 115
, variation of strength with diameter, 119
, variation of strength with length, 123
Bending strength, 119
Bernoulli, James, 149
, John, 183
Bones, proportion of, 131
, of birds, 150, 239
Brachistochrone, 225, 239

Canne = fathom
Capillarity, effect seen in shortening of rope, 20
as seen in drops on cabbage leaves, 70
Catenary, 149, 290
Cause, speed considered as a, 255
Causes, search after, futile, 166
Cavalieri, 41
Chords of circles, times of descent along, 188 et sq.
Cicero, xix
Cohesion of solids, 11 et sq., 18
Comandino, Federigo, 294
Compass, Galileo's military, 149
Composition of motions, 244, 257, 267
Continuity, mathematical, 24 et sq.